ASA vs. VFL, AWF, DMF, DSM, LEO, EVN, FT, INSI, VPV, and JOF
Should you be buying ASA Gold and Precious Metals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ASA Gold and Precious Metals include abrdn National Municipal Income Fund (VFL), AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund (AWF), BNY Mellon Municipal Income (DMF), BNY Mellon Strategic Municipal Bond Fund (DSM), BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals (LEO), Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust (EVN), Franklin Universal Trust (FT), Insight Select Income Fund (INSI), Invesco Pennsylvania Value Municipal Income Trust (VPV), and Japan Smaller Capitalization Fund (JOF). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
abrdn National Municipal Income Fund (NYSE:VFL) and ASA Gold and Precious Metals (NYSE:ASA) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and risk.
In the previous week, abrdn National Municipal Income Fund and abrdn National Municipal Income Fund both had 1 articles in the media. ASA Gold and Precious Metals' average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat abrdn National Municipal Income Fund's score of -1.00 indicating that abrdn National Municipal Income Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.
ASA Gold and Precious Metals received 86 more outperform votes than abrdn National Municipal Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users.
abrdn National Municipal Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.43 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. ASA Gold and Precious Metals pays an annual dividend of $0.03 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. abrdn National Municipal Income Fund has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and ASA Gold and Precious Metals has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
abrdn National Municipal Income Fund has a beta of 0.56, indicating that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ASA Gold and Precious Metals has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
abrdn National Municipal Income Fund beats ASA Gold and Precious Metals on 3 of the 5 factors compared between the two stocks.
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